May 24, 1844Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line. This photo was made when he was 59 years old just a short time later.

(AP Photo)

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." Albert Einstein

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

"If you stop trying to be better, soon you will stop being good." Gerhard Schurr, DH2SAA, Schurr Straight Keys and Paddles

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian W. Kernighan (developed UNIX with Dennis M. Richie and Kenneth L. Thompson at Bell Labs in 1969)

"UNIX is a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." -- Dennis Richie

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